21 February 2024

Agents of Change: 2022-2023 Cohort

Read the ideas and solutions from our fourth cohort.

EHN Staff

2022-2023 Cohort

How to free ourselves from the scholar-activist dilemma

Protecting Indigenous children means protecting water

The global food system is failing small-scale farmers — here’s how to fix it

Water injustice on display in the Southwest US

A love note to brown women facing beauty injustices

Restoring our waters is restoring ourselves

Reducing soil toxics in community gardens

It’s not just hair — fighting beauty injustice beyond the individual

Tapping into the power of community to make informal settlements healthier

Mourning family and climate change in the age of loss and damage

A radical solution to make US affordable housing healthy and community-driven

Farmworkers’ vicious cycle of precarious employment, exploitation and climate change

When a home is not a sanctuary but a sickening, expensive trap

Public lands are not neutral. We must grapple with their racist roots

Agents of Change: New fellows will focus on collaboration, impact, and justice

Past fellows

2019-2020 cohort

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Ilulissat, Greenland - coastal village with icebergs floating in bay

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Arctic scientists 'feel pretty uncomfortable' on Greenland

Science in the Arctic — and Greenland — is on the frontline of pressing challenges facing humanity, like climate change and genetics. Some researchers worry international collaboration is at risk.

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www.dw.com

Donald Trump speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

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Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court

Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.

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www.washingtonpost.com

Solar panels juxtaposed against transmission lines and wind turbines

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Trump’s attacks on renewables could boomerang, hit oil and gas

The president’s assaults on wind and solar projects could become a playbook for disrupting fossil fuel plans in the future.

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www.eenews.net

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The one big beautiful prediction: The energy transition is still alive

Trump has attacked renewable power from every angle, but energy justice scholar Sanya Carley envisions an affordable green future.

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capitalandmain.com

Oil pumps against a sunset sky background

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New lawsuit claims ‘catastrophic impacts’ from Permian Basin injection wells

A Permian Basin landowner alleges in a lawsuit that saltwater injection wells contributed to well blow-outs that caused extensive pollution on his property.

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insideclimatenews.org

Oil pump jacks silhouetted against a blue sky

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OK state senator seeks to rein in oil companies’ groundwater pollution

An investigation found over 150 incidents where oilfield wastewater had gushed from the earth, releasing toxic chemicals — including some that cause cancer — near homes and farms and into drinking water sources.

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www.propublica.org

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Houston plans to hit UN climate targets despite Paris Agreement exit

Houston has its own Climate Action Plan to meet Paris Agreement targets, set in motion when Trump announced his first withdrawal from the UN treaty in 2017.

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www.houstonchronicle.com